Thomas Hobbes

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
Thomas Hobbes - "The Leviathan"
The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
Thomas Hobbes - quoted from "Oxygen3, Panda Software
Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

- Thomas Hobbes